Jupiter probably has a core of rocky material amounting to something like 10 to 15 Earth-masses. ... Jupiter radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun. The interior of Jupiter is hot: the core is probably about 20,000 K. The heat is generated by the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism,
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A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: ... one star, eight planets, and more ... by Bill Arnett...
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A description of Jupiter's Core and Interior ... Extreme pressures and temperatures inside Jupiter make it impossible for us to send a probe deep into Jupiter's interior (learn about the fate of the Galileo Probe). Because of this, much of what we know about the interior and core of Jupiter is in the realm of scientific theory.
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After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. ... Jupiter's core was believed to be a massive snowball that formed in the cold reaches of the outer solar nebula, the gas and dust cloud from which the...
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The nature of Jupiter's core "influences the planet's formation mechanism, which gives us insight into how our solar system formed," Knudson told New Scientist. ... Didier Saumon, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, led the team that discovered Jupiter may lack a large core.
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Underneath its swirling cloud layers, Jupiter may harbor a solid core roughly equal in mass to 16 Earths—more than twice as large as previously believed.
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Computer simulations get up close to Jupiter's core. ... Jupiter's Core Twice as Big as Thought ; By SPACE.com Staff; posted: 25 November 2008; 04:05 pm ET; ... They found Jupiter's core is an Earth-like rock that's 14 to 18 times the mass of Earth, or about 5 percent of Jupiter's total mass. Previous studies suggested the...
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Computer simulations get up close to Jupiter's core. ... Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, researchers announced today.
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Jupiter's Interior and Magnetosphere ... Jupiter's Core ... The temperature at the core of Jupiter is estimated to be 30,000 degrees Celsius (about 55,000 degrees Fahrenheit). This heat makes its way up through Jupiter and shines through cloud-free holes in the clouds, which are appropriately named "hot spots".
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To understand the interior of Jupiter is currently very hard to determine and is very indirect. This is due to the fact that atmospheric space probes can only go a depth of 150 km below the surface. Jupiter probably has a rocky core deep in the planet amounting to around 10 to 15 Earth-masses.
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